Aulacothorax

Aulacothorax copalinus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chrysomeloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Cladus: Phytophaga Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Galerucinae
Tribus: Serraticollini
Genus: Aulacothorax
Species: A. africanus – A. arabicus – A. assamensis – A. australis – A. bakeri – A. borneoensis – A. capensis – A. carolinus – A. ceylonensis – A. chibi – A. coomani – A. copalinus – A. exilis – A. fulvus – A. impressiceps – A. kirejtshuki – A. konstantinovi – A. laboissierei – A. laticollis – A. malayaensis – A. melinus – A. mindanaoensis – A. minor – A. minutiusculus – A. minutus – A. nigripennis – A. nuwaraeliyanus – A. okinawanus – A. orientalis – A. pahangi – A. parkeri – A. parvus – A. perakensis – A. rangoonensis – A. rata – A. recticollis – A. sabahcola – A. sarawakensis – A. schereri – A. sulcicollis – A. syzygium – A. tenasserimensis – A. terminalia – A. tuberculatus – A. vestitus – A. visayanensis
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Name

Aulacothorax Boheman, 1858: 35

Gender: masculine.

Type species: Aulacothorax exilis Boheman, 1858, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Orthaltica Crotch, 1873: 69 [syn.: Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Crioceris copalina Fabricius, 1801, by subsequent designation of Scherer, 1974.
• Leptotrix Horn, 1889: 249 [not Leptothrix Menge, 1868 (Arachnida)] [syn.: Scherer, 1974: 65 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Haltica recticollis J.L. LeConte, 1861, by monotypy.
• Micrantipha Blackburn, 1896: 88 [syn.: Reid, 1990: 205 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Micrantipha paradoxa Blackburn, 1896, by monotypy.
• Livolia Jacoby, 1903: 15 [syn.: Scherer, 1974: 66 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Livolia sulcicollis Jacoby, 1903, by subsequent designation of Scherer, 1974.
• Leptotrichaltica Heikertinger, 1925: 68 [replacement name for Leptotrix Horn, 1889] [syn.: Scherer, 1974: 66 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
• Micrepitrix Laboissière, 1933: 205 [syn.: Scherer, 1971: 10 (with Livolia); Scherer, 1974: 66 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Micrepitrix coomani Laboissière, 1933, by monotypy.
• Serraticollis B. White, 1942: 17 [syn.: Arnett, 1963: 938 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Serraticollis rhois B. White, 1942 [= Orthaltica recticollis J.L. LeConte, 1861], by original designation.
• Epithrella Medvedev, 1994: 17 [syn.: Konstantinov & Prathapan, 2008: 406 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Epithrella philippina Medvedev, 1993, by original designation.
• Livoliella Medvedev, 1997: 100 [syn.: Konstantinov & Prathapan, 2008: 406 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Livoliella luzonica Medvedev, 1997, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Bezděk, J. & Konstantinov, A.S. 2017. Forgotten Aulacothorax Boheman, 1858, a Senior Synonym of Orthaltica Crotch, 1873 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(4): 791–795. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.791 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Blackburn, T. 1896. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. XIX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 35–109. BHL. Reference page. 
• Boheman, C.H., 1858. Coleoptera. Species novae discripsit, pp. 1–112. In: Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden unter Bafäl af C.A. Virgin, Aren 1851-1853. Andra Delen, Zoologici 1, Insecta. Stockholm. BHL
• Crotch, G.R. 1873. Materials for the Study of the Phytophaga of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 25(1): 19–83. JSTOR . BHL. Reference page. 
• Jacoby, M. 1903. A further contribution to our knowledge of African phytophagous Coleoptera, Part II. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903: 1–38. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1903.tb01124.x . BHL.
• Konstantinov, A.S. 1995. New species of Clavicornaltica and Orthaltica from the Australian and Oriental Regions (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Alticinae). Zoosystematica Rossica 3(2): 283–288. Abstract.
• Konstantinov, A.S. & Prathapan, K.D. 2008. New generic synonyms in the Oriental flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 62(3): 381-418. DOI: 10.1649/1089.1 . JSTOR . PDF. Reference page. 
• Laboissière, V. 1933. Descriptions de trois nouveaux Galerucini du Tonkin. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (ser. 2) 5: 203–208. BHL.
• Medvedev, L.N. 1994. Alticinae of the Philippine Islands (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Part 2. Russian Entomological Journal 2(5–6): 11–32. [not seen]
• Medvedev, L.N. 1997. New and interesting Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the Philippines collected by Dr. M. Satô. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 3(1): 99–104. [not seen]
• Reid, C.A.M. 1990. Micrantipha Blackburn, a synonym of Orthaltica Crotch (Col., Chrysomelidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 126: 205–206. [not seen]
• Scherer, G. 1971. Das Genus Livolia Jacoby und seine umstrittene Stellung im System. Eine taxonomische-zoogeographische-evolutionistische Studie (Coleoptera-Chrysomelidae-Alticinae). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 22: 1–37. BHL.
• Scherer, G. 1974. Review of North American species of Orthaltica with new generic synonymy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 28(2): 65–72. JSTOR . BHL.
• White, B.E. 1942. A new genus and species of Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae) from the southwestern United States. Entomological News 53(1): 16–21. BHL.

Additional references

• Andrews, F.G. & Gilbert, A.J. 1993. Studies on the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of the Baja California peninsula: a new species of Orthaltica (Alticinae), with notes on the genus in Baja California. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 69(4): 277–280. BHL. Reference page. 
• Douglas, H.B., Konstantinov, A.S., Brunke, A.J., Moseyko, A.G., Chapados, J.T., Eyres, J., Richter, R., Savard, K., Sears, E., Prathapan, K.D., Ruan, Y. & Dettman, J.R. 2023. Phylogeny of the flea beetles (Galerucinae: Alticini) and the position of Aulacothorax elucidated through anchored phylogenomics (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini). Systematic Entomology 48(3): 361–386. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12582 . Reference page.  [proposes classifying Aulacothorax in separate tribe Serraticollini]
• Furth, D.G. & Suzuki, K. 1994. Character correlation studies of problematic genera of Alticinae in relation to Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Pp. 116–135. In: Furth, D.G. (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Chrysomelidae, Beijing 1992. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 1–150. ISBN 90-73348-32-3 PDF. Reference page.  [as Orthaltica, Livolia, Micrantipha and Micrepitrix]
• Kimoto, S. 2003. The Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) collected by Dr. Akio Otake, on the occasion of his entomological survey in Sri Lanka from 1973 to 1975. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A (Natural History) 1: 23–43. DOI: 10.34522/kmnh.1.0_23 . Reference page.  [as Orthaltica]
• Prathapan, K.D., Konstantinov, A.S., Shameem, K.M. & Balan, A.P. 2013. First record of leaf-hole shelters used and modified by leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), with descriptions of two new Orthaltica Crotch species from southern India. ZooKeys 336: 47–59. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.336.5435 . Reference page. 
• Riley, E.G., Clark, S.M. & Seeno, T.N. 2003. Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopididae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 1. Sacramento, CA. 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8. BHL. Internet Archive. Reference page. 
• Suzuki, K. & Furth, D.G. 1992. What is a classification? A case study in insect systematics: Potential confusion before order. Zoological Science 96: 1113–1126. BHL. Reference page.  [as Orthaltica]
• Takizawa, H. 2017. Leaf beetles of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 23(2): 195–233. Abstract (Facebook). Reference page.